RE: A86: Byte order

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: RE: A86: Byte order
From: Dan Eble <eble@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 14:40:39 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.16.19970928184454.33afec64@charlie.cns.iit.edu>
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org

On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Alan Bailey wrote:

> processors is sometimes different.  The z80 is a Big-Endian, which means
> the most-significant byte is stored first.  some processors are
> Small-Endian, or little-endian, which means the opposite.  
> 
> I'm pretty sure about that last bit of information
> 

You got that backwards, Alan.  The Z80 stores the least significant byte
(the little end) first.  Intel chips are the same way.  The Motorola
680x0 chips are big-endian, as are most RISC processors (as far as I
know).

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RE: A86: Byte order

From: Alan Bailey <bailela@charlie.cns.iit.edu>